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Klappentext An invaluable guide to a variety of core research concepts in both political science and international relations. Each entry is consistently structured and cross-relates entries, it contains examples and can be used across an entire degree. Zusammenfassung An invaluable guide to a variety of core research concepts in both political science and international relations. Each entry is consistently structured and cross-relates entries! it contains examples and can be used across an entire degree. Inhaltsverzeichnis Indroduction Action Research Autobiography/Biography Research Behaviourialism Case Studies Causality and Correlations Comparative Method Concepts Content Analysis Deduction/Induction Discourse Analysis Documentary Analysis Ecological Fallacy Empirical Analysis Epistemology Ethics Ethnography and Ethnomethodology Evidence-based Policy Making (EBPM) Feminism/Feminist Methodologies Focus Groups Hypothesis-Testing and Inference Interviewing Levels of Measurement Methods Methodology Narratives Observation Official Data Ontology Paradigm Positivism Post-postivism Presenting Quantitative Analysis Primary Sources Qualitative Methods Quantitative Methods Rational-Choice Realism Reliability Sampling Secondary Analysis Survey Design Theory Triangulation Validity Variables Index
List of contents
Indroduction
Action Research
Autobiography/Biography Research
Behaviourialism
Case Studies
Causality and Correlations
Comparative Method
Concepts
Content Analysis
Deduction/Induction
Discourse Analysis
Documentary Analysis
Ecological Fallacy
Empirical Analysis
Epistemology
Ethics
Ethnography and Ethnomethodology
Evidence-based Policy Making (EBPM)
Feminism/Feminist Methodologies
Focus Groups
Hypothesis-Testing and Inference
Interviewing
Levels of Measurement
Methods
Methodology
Narratives
Observation
Official Data
Ontology
Paradigm
Positivism
Post-postivism
Presenting Quantitative Analysis
Primary Sources
Qualitative Methods
Quantitative Methods
Rational-Choice
Realism
Reliability
Sampling
Secondary Analysis
Survey Design
Theory
Triangulation
Validity
Variables
Index
Report
This book provides a clear, balanced and accessible introduction to a broad range of methodological concepts and techniques. Research methods can be a challenging area of study for undergraduate students, and this text will be an indispensable guide for students of Politics and International Relations at different stages of their degree.
Fidelma Ashe
Senior Lecturer in Politics, the University of Ulster
Lisa Harrison and Theresa Callan have succeeded in doing what few authors have hitherto managed! They have written a robust introductory text on research methods in the field of Politics and IR which is both clear and accessible and covers all bases succinctly. This book will be a tremendous resource for undergraduates in the field.
Dr Nicholas Startin
Lecturer in the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies, University of Bath
